FAMILIAR ALLUSIONS:

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION,

INCLUDINO

THE NAMES OP CELEBRATED STATTTES, PAINTINGS,

PALACES, COUNTBY-SEATS, BUIN8, CHUBCHES,

SHIPS, STBEETS, CLUBS, NATUBAL

CUBIOSITIE8, AND THE LIKE.

BEGUN (BUT LEFT UNFINISHED)

Bt WILLIAM A. WHEELER.

COMPLETED AND EDITED

By CHARLES G. WHEELER.

lie that undertakes to compile a Dictionary undertake* that which, if
It comprehends the full extent of his design, he knows himself unable to
perform. Yet his labors, though deficient, may be useful. — Johnson.

Les monuments sont les crampons qui unlssent une generation a une
autre.—Joubibt.

BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY.

1882.